Every day I worry more and more that I might actually have entered a coma, or am dying, and the past few years or so have actually been a Jacob's Ladder type hallucination, that's increasingly going off the rails. What the fuck, reality?

OP, all the big name old sci-fi magazines are actually archived in PDF format, great for reading on tablets or even just your computer screen. I don't have the URLs on hand but if you google "luminist.org sci-fi" and "galaxy science fiction" you will find what you need.

He’s not ugly, but he’s not handsome either. It’s the kind of face where if you loved him he’d be the most handsome guy in the world, but if you didn’t know him and saw him walking down the street you wouldn’t even remember him.

I disagree with everything about this guy except the thing about random messaging. It seems that now-a-days private messaging people is reserved for people you actually know and random messages to adults are looked down upon? People used to have a lot more open communication when the Internet was less universal, like on Myspace and everything before... that's kind of what the Internet was made for anyway.

Yeah I get this a lot. Think I saw a video once which explained how we mainly look at ourselves in mirrors throughout the day and so our brain has a certain idea of how we look. However, a mirror flips things from left to right, so this isn't actually what we look like to other people or to a camera. This difference between a mirror and a picture is what we don't like. Same thing goes for selfies vs pictures. Not sure what we can do about it though :(

Change of metabolism as you age can generally only be caused by two things: change in activity level and muscle mass. You can change those things. Age isn't really a factor here unless you're literally elderly, and even then there are still possible solutions!

If you really think you have a metabolic change out of your control, then you are in the less than 1% and should see a doctor about any possible undiagnosed diseases such as hypothyroidism or metabolic syndrome.

Your stomach looked semi-defined enough that if you flexed in the mirror, with the right lighting, you would have seen abs. Unless you're a bodybuilder in contest shape, abs only ever show in certain poses/lighting. Even during male physique contests, the contestants are consciously flexing their abs the entire time they're on stage.

This is why I don't understand how my generation, who grew up on analog cable/antenna, complain when Netflix doesn't have a specific movie they're looking for. Like... bitch? Not only is that not how streaming services work, but you've also experienced first hand how far we've come???

Droopy skin is determined by a few factors. Age, genes, how long you were overweight, and how overweight. Many times it's temporary. There's almost no telling how it's going to go, but either way it's worth it.